Toberkeen
Toberkeen is a townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Tobar Caoin.
- Area
- 187.2 ha
- 462 acres
- Land parcels
- 205
- registered freehold, median 2,702 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
205 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toberkeen, from 17 m² to 141,261 m² (14.13 ha, 34.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Toberkeen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Sept 2026N/a
(1) RECONSTRUCTION OF AN EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION, (3) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661797
13 Jul 2026Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 25/60186
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661293
16 Apr 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660655
14 Feb 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560186
2 May 2024Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING: (A) SIDE EXTENSION, (B) ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT FACADE, (C) ADDITION OF A CAR PORT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL ROOF LINKING SAME TO DWELLING, (D) COVERED EXTERNAL AMENITY SPACES AND EXTERNAL FIREPLACE, (E) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA, AND (F) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460639
30 Apr 2024N/a
PROPOSED ALTERATIONS & EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING (I) SIDE EXTENSION (II) ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT FACADE, (III) ADDITION OF A CARPORT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL ROOF LINKING SAME TO DWELLING, (IV) COVERED EXTERNAL AMENITY SPACES & EXTERNAL FIREPLACE, (V) INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA (VII) ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460619
8 Apr 2024Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460478
27 Feb 2024Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/51497 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460233
5 Oct 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351497
23 Jan 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH AN AMENDMENT TO THE SIDE ELEVATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350052
20 Jun 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251058
19 May 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150954
2 Nov 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC HOUSE WITH A SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051631
31 Jan 2020Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE TO INCLUDE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050083
21 Aug 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INTERMITTENT SAND FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851286
27 Nov 2017Refused
(1) ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND AN INTERMITTENT SAND FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751789
4 Sept 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DRY STORAGE SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751352
24 Aug 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY STORAGE SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751303
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Rutland Island and Sound SAC 002283
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toberkeen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toberkeen.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Toberkeen, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1177 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Toberkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Toberkeen · Tobar Caoin
- Area
- 1,871,582 m² (187.16 ha, 462.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Maghery, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 754 people lived in 290 households in the Maghery electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cleenderry, Croaghnamaddy, Crocknageeragh, Meenabollagan, Saltpans
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Toberkeen on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.